Where did you find your first E-Body?

[Cuda Cody]

   Great story!  $40?     Deal of the year. 

1984 I noticed while doing my paper route after school one day. this green dodge 2 house down from mine. every time I went passed it. It grew on me. 1985 came around and I approached the wife that turns out hated that car. A F8 1973 Challenger 318 F8 interior.
So I asked how much and she came back with make me an offer.  I said 400 and she laughed and said no way. I was shocked and saddened cause that all I had. She looked at the car and me and said no way that too much for the piece of crap. I was like whaaattt.
So I offered up 200. same answer, too much for that pos. Then I figured hey. So I said 40.00. she looked at me and said wait a minute and went back in side. She came out and said she called her husband and he said get it out of the drive way. 2 hours later when my pops came home. i told him and he was cool with it. He had a 78 NY brougham 4dr. took that down the street with a big ass chain and yanked it out of there yard. Rolled it down 2 house and pushed it up into the garage. I drove this until 1988 and then dis mantled it for a full resto. and boy at that time there were no repo parts that I could find, Except I found Joel from metro parts co. one year at the nats and bought his new product. the upper grille molding. so since then came 4 challenger parts cars. 71 challenger rt, 70 road runner, 71 barracuda, 70 rt/se challenger.

[Chryco Psycho]

Naw you still over paid !!

Steal of the century !

[cuda dad]

I drove by this 1970 'cuda 340 to and from work for what seemed like months.  One day on my way home it had a sign in the window and the guy was walking back to the house, $900 or best offer.  I asked him to remove the sign and give me two weeks.  I said that I would give him $1,000.  I couldn't get the money together so my mom co-signed for me.  I ended up getting a loan for $48.18 a month for 24 months at 14 percent interest!  I put a lot of love and money in that car.

Those are F60-14'S ON 8 IN and M50-14's on 10 IN U.S. Indy's.  Yeah, they stuck out a little.

Notice the functional cold air intake!

[Cuda Cody]

That's great.     $48.18 a month seems like nothing these days.  But I bet it was a big deal for you back then.

I drove by this 1970 'cuda 340 to and from work for what seemed like months.  One day on my way home it had a sign in the window and the guy was walking back to the house, $900 or best offer.  I asked him to remove the sign and give me two weeks.  I said that I would give him $1,000.  I couldn't get the money together so my mom co-signed for me.  I ended up getting a loan for $48.18 a month for 24 months at 14 percent interest!  I put a lot of love and money in that car.

Those are F60-14'S ON 8 IN and M50-14's on 10 IN U.S. Indy's.  Yeah, they stuck out a little.

Notice the functional cold air intake!

[cuda dad]

Where did you find the very first E-Body you ever owned?  Online forum, ebay, newspaper, auto trader, or maybe word of mouth?  And do you still have it?

Online forum . . . guy originally posted it for sale and then started taking additional pictures for people who were interested and then decided that he just couldn't do it . . . three years later, I happen to come across the post searching for a '71 Cuda project for sale and just out of curiosity, contact the seller whom still had the car in the same condition. 
After talking for several weeks, we came to terms and home with me she came.

Persistence pays off

[Pentastarnut]

I found my 'Cuda in Ft. Worth, TX. I had posted in the cars wanted section on another E~Body site before i knew this site existed. After a few emails with pics and a couple of phone conversations i picked it up the morning after Christmas 2016 

[stevec]

Bought mine from a dealer in 1978,
bought my first (restorable) body from a private party

[Cuda Cody]

Looks like a great project.     What color are you thinking of painting it?

I found my 'Cuda in Ft. Worth, TX. I had posted in the cars wanted section on another E~Body site before i knew this site existed. After a few emails with pics and a couple of phone conversations i picked it up the morning after Christmas 2016 

[FSHTAIL]

Ebay..   

Watched the car get relisted several times and the price dropped by 2k every time.      Then I pulled the trigger and contacted them.

I was in the process of buying it around eBay when some scammer hit buy it now. 

I was crushed to see someone bought it before I sealed the deal. 

They figured out it was a scammer and that they needed to figure out how to make sure they can cancel the auction once they reported the guy.   

I flew out 2 weeks later to Muscle Shoals Alabama with cash and drove it back to Minnesota.   



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[Cuda Mom]

I drove by this 1970 'cuda 340 to and from work for what seemed like months.  One day on my way home it had a sign in the window and the guy was walking back to the house, $900 or best offer.  I asked him to remove the sign and give me two weeks.  I said that I would give him $1,000.  I couldn't get the money together so my mom co-signed for me.  I ended up getting a loan for $48.18 a month for 24 months at 14 percent interest!  I put a lot of love and money in that car.

Those are F60-14'S ON 8 IN and M50-14's on 10 IN U.S. Indy's.  Yeah, they stuck out a little.

Notice the functional cold air intake!

Hey, he bought this for me.  I learned to drive in this car.

[Dmz73]

1984 I noticed while doing my paper route after school one day. this green dodge 2 houses down from mine. every time I went passed it. It grew on me. 1985 came around and I approached the wife that turns out hated that car. A F8 1973 Challenger 318 F8 interior.
So I asked how much and she came back with make me an offer.  I said 400 and she laughed and said no way. I was shocked and saddened cause that's all I had. She looked at the car and me and said no way that's too much for the piece of crap. I was like whaaattt.
So I offered up 200. same answer, too much for that pos. Then I figured hey. So I said 40.00. she looked at me and said wait a minute and went back in side. She came out and said she called her husband and he said get it out of the drive way. 2 hours later when my pops came home. i told him and he was cool with it. He had a 78 NY brougham 4dr. took that down the street with a big ass chain and yanked it out of there yard. Rolled it down 2 house and pushed it up into the garage. I drove this until 1988 and then dis mantled it for a full resto. and boy at that time there were no repo parts that I could find, Except I found Joel from metro parts co. one year at the nats and bought his new product. the upper grille molding. so since then came 4 challenger parts cars. 71 challenger rt, 70 road runner, 71 barracuda, 70 rt/se challenger.

Wow Dave. Talk about luck!


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[Dmz73]

Great stories! Great to see that some people connected together through these cars too.

I had been lurking, searching and researching for a Challenger for at least two years before I found my Challengers off of and ad on Moparts.
I bought two Challengers out of AZ. (a 72 and a 73)  for the price of one in 05.
The car I intended on building was the 72 - it was B3 blue, and had been rode hard and put away wet. It had recently been painted, but was just a shell with some bondo cracks, and a few boxes of parts-no drivetrain. Come to find out it had a VIN issue, and some other damage lurking beneath the paint.
The 73 that came with it as a parts car was EW1, and complete, minus drivetrain, and a rear axle. (The seller threw on a roller)
My buddies came over to check out the cars and have a few beers, render their advice and see what trouble I got into.
They convinced me that the 73 was the car to build since it was unmolested- it had a rusted roof, a nasty baked interior, and a rusty trunk with nearly every corner on the car damaged. But the good thing- the car was immaculate underneath.
I sold the 72, bought parts for the 73, and 12 years later, I'm still driving it.
A few years back I happened to be perusing some Hot Wheels enthusiast site and came across the 2nd owner of my car. We are still friends.



Dan


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[Chryco Psycho]

Great story Dan
Glad you joined us here too 

[RUNCHARGER]

Not my first E-body but hopefully a fun story anyway: It was 1980 and I had been hunting for a 426 Hemi for some time. A friend of mine worked at an Engine/Speed shop and called me one Friday morning. He told me there was an ad on their bulletin board for a Cuda with a Hemi in it. I shot over there in minutes and grabbed the ad off the bulletin board so no one else would look at it. I called the guy and headed over to the town (60 miles away) but the guy had gotten called into work and wasn't there. the car had an inside hood release so I looked underneath and could see by the headers, oil filter etc that it indeed did have a Hemi. I wrote down the VIN of the car so I could do a lien check on it and went home. It was March but it had been an early spring and there was no snow and it was a pleasant trip back.
I ran the lien check and the guy owed $3150 to the bank on the car. I had a bank draft made up to him and the bank for $3200 and went down with another $300 in my pocket a week later with a buddy. Plan was that if the car started and ran I was coming home with it.
On the way down it was a blizzard but we made it down okay. Met the guy, fired up the car and made the deal at $3200. Now with that out of the way I had to get it out of there and it was uphill out of his driveway with Bald Eagle L60's on the back and 500HP.
We shovelled like the devil, he brought over a guy with a 4WD but no dice. I ended up hiring a tow truck and winching it out of his yard from the road with the tow truck. Just had to drive the 60 miles home now. The road was glare ice and blowing snow but it went fairly well until a town called Hixon. You have to drive through Hixon at 40MPH and then climb up a fairly steep mile and a half hill with a sharp curve at the bottom of it. I hit that curve about 40 and lightly drifted around it and went up the hill as best I could, feathering that thundering Hemi all the way. I think I was doing 10MPH at the top just chewing up there but we made it.
I would have to say that was probably the best purchase I made back then. The car was a factory 340 auto car and two policemen bought it and installed the big 426 when the car was brand new. I still have the new Cuda 340 hood emblems for it that were in the glovebox when I bought it.

[Chryco Psycho]

That is a great sleeper , no one would see that coming !!